Ekweremadu and IPOB: Do I now say Nigeria is not worth ones efforts and sacrifice? By Nkemdi Kenneth

Last Saturday afternoon, the internet broke with viral video of IPOB coyotes attacking former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu and sending him out of an event organized by Igbos in Nuremberg Germany. In the said video, Ekweremadu was thoroughly humiliated, beaten, rough handled and sent out of the even by a rabble that were hooting and fretting at him as he was shielded out of the event.

A crest-fallen Ekweremadu must have been wondering what possessed the very people he had bent over severally to please. It was Ekweremadu himself who confirmed the attack later in the day. He said he was at the event but was not allowed to settle as irate mob of IPOB members heckled, threw pellets at him and physically attacked him until he was ferried out of the event. He lamented that he had been one Igbo that had supported the war cry of IPOB and the multifarious issues it had raised against the Nigerian state and wondered how he could be so humiliated.

Personally, I was also confused why IPOB should attack Ekweremadu of all people because he stands at the very epoch of the crop of Igbo politicians that have indulged IPOB, its excesses and its rabid hate politics. Ekweremadu has been at the very zenith of mostly PDP politicians in Igboland who have pampered IPOB and supported all they did against Prein the South East since 2015 and Ike Ekweremadu remains at the very center of this politics. But then, with time, IPOB has come to attract the odium and scorn its vile-ridden politics provoked especially amongst other Nigerians who remain solidly railed against this politics.

Igbo politics has, in the sequel, plummeted and gone into near-extinction in this mad predilection to sow anger, bitterness and hatred and Igbo have been so badly ostracized and negatively profiled in Nigerian politics in such a way that navigating out of this self-imposed miasma and even staking a credible claim to the Nigerian presidency in 2023, which many feel should rightly come to the Igbo, has become a near-difficult task.

It is a rude awakening to Ekweremadu who deign no scruples having their beloved Igbo race plummet to the very lowest depth of Nigerian politics so long as they continue to maintain their suzerain hold on the political space in Igboland. I believe that when Igbo engage in serious thinking about their fate, they would realize the kind of harm and damage they are doing and have done… who profess undying love for Igbo at every drop of the hat, have done to the race. It is trite to say that the attack on Ekweremadu remains one of the fallout of any effort to elevate and romance evil and encourage it, hoping it will go after only your enemies.

Groups like IPOB have gone beyond control and their targets will remain.

I don’t really know what triggered the attack on Ekweremadu and I am not interested in knowing but those who mischievously invest in the kind of politics that have flowered in Igboland since 2015, those who con rich harvest from it while it leads to a great defenestration of Igbo, those who feed fat on that salad of bitterness and hate, those who have made Igbo to incur the hatred and repulsion of other people in Nigeria for their selfish ends, those who believe they will continue to milk Igboland by supporting cheap, emotional vibes that pit and endanger Igbo among other people in Nigeria, will certainly reap what they sowe either now or in the foreseeable future.

In addition I also heard that those IPOB members who beat up Ekweremadu in Germany have claimed that their reason for doing doing that is that Ekweremadu didn’t do anything about the insecurity and killings in the South East despite being Deputy Senate president. When I heard this I laughed because this was a position Ekweremadu connived to steal through legislatorial in 2015 and he earned a lot of applause from the pro-IPOB members of the public.

Had he distanced himself from thus avoided usurping what belonged to another by right, he would have spared himself this unfortunate attack. A stolen food will always later poison the stomach no matter how delicious it was during the eating stage.

Ironically, should IPOB members suddenly find in Germany the one Ike connived with who enticed Ike into that position against every morality, they will not touch him at all but may even hail him.

In addition those supporters who have been demonizing this government for proscribing IPOB have been in a quiet state of confusion since the same IPOB has beaten one of the highest ranking members of them..

I am not in doubt that henceforth Ekweremadu and other senators from the SE will never support again the agitation to lift the ban on IPOB.

A wise ruler will educate his people, and his government will be orderly. All the officials and all the citizens will be like their ruler.

An uneducated king will ruin his people, but a government will grow strong if its rulers are wise. The Almighty sees to the government of the world and brings the right person to power at the right time.

The success of that person is in the Almighty s hands. The Almighty is the source of the honor given to any official.

Let’s all have a sense of reasoning and always be patriotic it goes a long way she concluded.